Movie: How to Be a Detective

Top 3 Billed Cast

Pinto Colvig
Pinto Colvig

Goofy

Billy Bletcher
Billy Bletcher

Pete - Al Muldoon (voice)

June Foray
June Foray

The Dame

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    Goofy is "Johnny Eyeball, Private Eye" who gets mixed up in a surreal whodunnit involving a classy dame, a cop, weasels, and the mysterious missing Al.

  • Release Date

    1952-12-12

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    6.7

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    3.4 starts
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    English
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